Thinking Quotes

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

I'm always open to somebody else having a better idea, but I feel like, if it feels real, then people aren't thinking about it and they're just doing the acting of it.

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for everybody, so maybe mom movies aren't for everybody.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional guilt with my habits.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

I do think your attitude towards money is an inherent part of your character.